Are we losing practical life skills?

Tim read this blog aloud to me Are we losing practical life skills?

Our own lack of real life skills upon leaving college is one of the reasons we homeschool and acquiring human capital for ourselves and our family is one of the things we appreciate about learning to farm.

I wanted to share an excerpt here. 

Only the wealthy can afford to have someone else fix their bicycle, walk and wash their dog, change the oil in their car, repair their house, etc. Practical skills enable an individual or household to lower the cost of living to the point that savings (capital accumulation) is possible. 

Practical skills are human capital, which is the means of production in a knowledge economy.
The Knowledge Economy's Two Classes of Workers (March 29, 2013)
 
In a very real sense, those with few practical skills are doomed to a zero-capital life unless they earn enough to pay somebody else to do everything for them, i.e. a minimum of $150,000+ a year, i.e. a top 10% household income. Even at that income level, people who can't do anything for themselves may not be able to save any money.
 
Poverty and lack of life skills are causally connected.
 
Science fiction author Robert Heinlein famously listed the skills of the generally competent in his book Time Enough for Love:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
 
I propose amending Heinlein's list for the modern era: The marginally competent person should know how to: 

1. Look up how to fix something on the Web
2. Use WD-40
3. Get a bicycle chain back on the gears
4. Apply superglue without gluing their fingers together
5. Change the oil in a car
6. Replace a lockset
7. Troubleshoot network connections on a PC/laptop
8. Make a stir-fry meal using multiple fresh ingredients
9. Compose coherent instructions that explain how to do something useful
10. Keep a variety of plants alive and producing fruit, vegetables or flowers

This is obviously a very short list, but we have to start somewhere. 

Out of the 31 skills listed, I can do a little less than half with varying degrees of competence.

How about you?